English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

It is very easy to defeat someone but it is very hard to win someone.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.